The master scribes : Qurʾans of the 10th to 14th centuries AD
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The master scribes : Qurʾans of the 10th to 14th centuries AD
(The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic art, v. 2)
Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions , Oxford University Press, c1992
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-237) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Khalili Collection is the greatest collection of Islamic art in private hands; it is continuing to grow and improve. It contains a large and comprehensive range of Qur'anic material, covering the entire history of Qur'an production from the seventh to the twentieth century, including examples from centres as far apart as Spain and India. This is the second of four volumes cataloguing the Qur'ans in the Khalili Collection. Notable among the manuscripts in this volume is a Qur'an by the greatest calligrapher of the Middle Ages, Yaqut al-Musta`simi, which is exceptional in that it retains its original illumination. Other masterpieces include a Qur'an written in gold from twelfth-century Iraq; the only twelfth-century Qur'an from Valencia still in private hands; and a manuscript that is possibly the earliest Qur'an to survive from India. The lavish presentation of this catalogue is combined with detailed scholarship that not only encompasses the history of the subject, but also presents in accompanying essays new findings that have been made in the course of cataloguing. This book is intended for art historians, Islamicists, collectors and curators of Islamic art.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 AD 1000-1300: the eastern Islamic world - catalogue numbers 1-10, the problem of Yaqut al-Musta'simi, catalogue numbers 11-16, eastern Iran and northern India, catalogue numbers 17-18
- the western Islamic world - the Qur'ans from Valencia, catalogue numbers 19-20. Part 2 AD 1300-1400: Iraq and Iran - the Ilkhanid legacy - a master from Mosul, catalogue numbers 21-28, a Qur'an for an Inju'id princess, catalogue numbers 29-35
- the mamluks of Egypt and Syria - catalogue numbers 36-42
- Granada and North Africa - catalogue number 53-58.
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